Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre: Annual Report 2012

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Marketing and membership
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Marketing and membership
Art Not Apart
NewActon Arts Precinct hosts Art
Not Apart, bringing together a
wide spectrum of artists from all
backgrounds, including musicians,
poets, painters, sculptors, dancers,
filmmakers, street artists, designers
and all walks of life gather in
beautiful spaces to talk and wander.
Craft ACT represents craft and
design practitioners, exposing them
to new audiences and markets.
Over 4,500 visitors attended the
2012 event.
Digital outreach
As well as being integral to the
delivery of member services and
administrative processes the
Centre’s website remains a key
communication and marketing
tool. The website acts as an
interface for services such as online
membership renewals, Accredited
Professional Member portfolios
and calendar of events. It enhances
community engagement with
the centre through automated
reminders to exhibitions and
events, and subscriptions to
electronic media. The website
promotes Canberra’s excellence in
contemporary craft and design and
is accessible to a global market.
The Craft ACT website was hacked
in 2012 which resulted in the loss of
statistical data.
Member highlights
Valerie Kirk, critically acclaimed
visual artist received the $45,000
prestigious ACT Creative Arts
Fellowship for 2013. Annie
Trevillian was successful in her
submission to work with the
ACT Heritage Unit to present
creatively interpretive works
for the heritage listed site, The
Valley Ruin, as part of the 2012
Heritage Festival. Julie Ryder
was 1 of 5 selected artists who
projected work in Enlighten onto
the National Library of Australia as
part of the 2012 Canberra Festival.
Gilbert Riedelbauch, Blanche
Tilden and Simon Cotterell were
represented in the international
travelling exhibition, Unexpected
Pleasures: The Art and Design of
Contemporary Jewellery curated
by Susan Cohn for the London
Design Museum. Black Magic by
Barbara Rogers was purchased by
the Hong Kong Design Institute
for their Fashion Archive. Dianne
Firth was awarded the artists 2012
Canberra Critics Circle Award. Ian
Jones and Moraig McKenna were
invited to Singapore to oversee
the firing of one of the last two
remaining Dragon Kilns in the
area. Monique Van Nieuwland
undertook a four week professional
residency at the Kolding School
of Design in Denmark. Work by
Nikki Main, Abandon was selected
in the prestigious Ranamok Prize
exhibition.
Member exhibitions
Signature
Each year the Accredited Professional
Membership is invited to participate
in a curated group exhibition. Each
year this poses a challenge for the
curator - how to theme and structure
a collective of diverse artists and
disparate works into a coherent
exhibition narrative. Signature
showcased the strong, vibrant
and highly skilled community of
practitioners, many internationally
renowned, forming the rich vein
of Canberra’s cultural identity. 20
Accredited Professional Members
participated in the exhibition.
Parallels, a solo exhibition
presented by Accredited
Professional Member, Barbara
Rogers, of contemporary textiles
exploring the diversity and language
of the graphic stripe pattern.
Urban Forest, a solo exhibition
presented by Accredited
Professional Member, Dianna
Firth, explored the street trees
of Canberra and their impact on
forming the city’s urban character.
Notations, a solo exhibition
presented by Accredited
Professional Member, Margaret
Brown, interpreted the place of
graffiti in ancient and contemporary
society.
Canberra Bells and Ginninderra
Peppercress, showcase exhibition
by Accredited Professional Member,
Cathy Franzi. This was a sell-out
show with works purchased for
the Canberra Museum and Gallery
Collection.
Moraig McKenna – Ceramics,
showcase exhibition by member
Moraig McKenna, recipient of the
Craft ACT Canberra Potters’ Society
Annual Exhibition Award.
(01) Capital of Culture designed
by Kate Ward, 2012
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